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Once upon a time . . . What time are we upon and where do I belong?

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Francesca Lia Block
Age: 62
Born: 1962
Born: January 3
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You make me feel like I have wings when you touch me.
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She had changed him. The ice was in his eyes and in his heart, like he had predicted with that song, but now they were deep embedded there, all the pain of the world. Not pain to make you feel for somebody else but pain to make you stop feeling.
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Our eyelashes brushed like they would weave together by themselves, turning us into one wild thing. I say, “I think I missed you before I met you even.
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I saw my own blood and I thought, how could I live in a world where this exists- where love can become death?
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War is being reminded that you are completely at the mercy of death at every moment, without the illusion that you are not. Without the distractions that make life worth living.
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I love Sylvia Plath and Anne Sexton. I also love more cerebral poets like H.D. and Emily Dickinson. My parents subscribed to a monthly poetry periodical, and as a teenager I was introduced to Denise Levertov, who was an influence.
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Pianos, unlike people, sing when you give them your every growl. They know how to dive into the pit of your stomach and harmonize with your roars when you’ve split yourself open. And when they see you, guts shining, brain pulsing, heart right there exposed in a rhythm that beats need need, need need, need need, pianos do not run. And so she plays.
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He said, You're so tiny, like a doll, you look like you might break. I wanted him to break me. Part of me did.
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I try to see the dark and light in everything. This is my way of comforting myself when I am dealing with those emotions.
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I think depression creates in me an urgent need to write, but I also believe that daily stress, and even the positive stress of intense happiness, can compel me to express myself through the written word.
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You asked me who I thought I was before. I said maybe I was a fish because I love water and you said, you thought a mermaid, maybe. If you were a mermaid, you said, if you were a mermaid, I was the sea.
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Maybe any love we ever have is an angel in whatever form.
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Love is a dangerous angel.
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I'll be inside the one who holds you. And then I won't be.
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You have to make your own family, your own life.
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Let's not be afraid of anything that can't really hurt us.
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But be careful sand is already broken but glass breaks. The shoes are for dancing, not running away.
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No matter how bad things get, you can always see the beauty in them. The worse things get, the more you have to make yourself see the magic in order to survive.
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Relieved because what I dreaded most in the whole world was going to happen and I wouldn’t have to live with it anymore—the fear. There is the relief of finally not being alone and the relief of being alone when no one can take anything away from you. Here she was, my beautiful fear. Shiny as crystal lace frost.
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We no longer believe in fairy tales. But we will learn to believe in monsters
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